Best Food Vendor Contest New York

"The food sold from carts attracts just as much passion from New Yorkers as the stuff their super-chefs serve up.

In a tense cook-off at last month's Vendy awards, Sammy's Halal won the top award with his much prized chicken and rice (so spiced it clears nasal passages).

Although die-hard street food fans will head for Samiul Haque Noor's cart in Jackson Heights, Queens (on the corner of 73rd and Broadway in tourist nowheresville) to queue around the block for a...
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"The food sold from carts attracts just as much passion from New Yorkers as the stuff their super-chefs serve up.

In a tense cook-off at last month's Vendy awards, Sammy's Halal won the top award with his much prized chicken and rice (so spiced it clears nasal passages).

Although die-hard street food fans will head for Samiul Haque Noor's cart in Jackson Heights, Queens (on the corner of 73rd and Broadway in tourist nowheresville) to queue around the block for a taste, those in Manhattan can always do the thoroughly un-American, if more convenient thing, of heading to one of the runners-up.

Thiru Kumar, 'the Dosa Man', does acclaimed vegan food on the corner of Washington Square Park South and Sullivan Street, while the Vendley brothers do hipster Californian Mexican food at Calexico on the corner of Wooster and Prince Streets in SoHo."

The Observer, November 12 2006
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